We're trapped in the belly of the machine| aftermath.site
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about Creative AI tooling and its intersections with game development, and mostly how I think a lot of the applications (and discussions) of it right now are naïve. This really hit when listening to a recent episode of the Interdependence podcast with Runway ML founder Cristóbal Valenzuela. In the podcast they talk deeply about mental models around the current creative AI moment, and what’s possible. But more specifically, they talk about how the thinki...| k-hole
Writing for TANK magazine in 2019, Josh Citarella mused on how WoW Classic tied into Mark Fischer’s idea of“the slow cancellation of the future” (aka“where are my hoverboards”) — its release acting as further evidence of the collapsing gap of space between cultural time (cultural cycles) and nostalgia. I tend to agree with his position here, and have adopted a refrain I like to throw around now —“culture has stopped”. Cirtrella points to the collapsing gap between items that...| k-hole
